The Engaged Caregiver: How to Build a Performance-Driven Workforce to Reduce Burnout and Transform Care

CHAPTER6

Building Data Plans to Drive Improvement

David Shinsel

To use data effectively, healthcare organizations must prepare for it. Although they can sharpen and define some elements more precisely once they receive data insights, high-performing organizations proactively establish goals, boundaries, and structures for their data usage. This chapter discusses how organizations can build plans for using data, thus avoiding common pitfalls.

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